Clip for whiffletrees.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLIP FOR WHIFFLETREES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed February 2, 1906. Serial No. 299,203.

To a/ZZ whom, t 'rn/(ry concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY F. GRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coe lumbus,in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clips for VVhiiiietrees andthe Like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved clip for swingle trees and the like, of simple, effective and economical/form, that is., adapted to be secured in place without the use of a bolt and nut and the tool or tools necessary to apply them.

The invention resides in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings in which I have shown one embodiment of the invention-Figure l is a view in side elevation 5 Fig. 2 is a plan view; and Fig. 3 is an end view looking toward the left Fig. l. l

In the views 1 designates what I shall call the draft member and 2 the locking member.

The draft member is shown to comprise a body portion la adapted to fit slightly more than half way around the wood of the tree and extending beyond both terminals of a plane bisecting the wood axially. The for ward end of. the draft member has cast integral with it a loop 1b for the attachment of the traces of the harnessed animal. The rear end of thedraft member has an eye 1c to receive a hook on the locking member 2. The metal between the eye and the body portion of the draft member is recessed, as

reaches up through the recess at 1d.

seen at 1d, and the upper side of the metal at this portion made with a groove le.

The body of the locking member 2 is pref erably so formed as to fit only partially around the lower half of the wood and so as to allow for some compression on the wood before it can contact at its forward end with the corresponding end of the draft member. The

rear end of this member is furnished with a hook 2a to enter and so engage the eye 1c as to latch the two members together at that end, and the forward end of this locking member is furnished with a tongue 2b rlllllat 1s tongue is made with a slot 20.

To lock the parts together and to clamp them tightly on the wood .of the tree I use a wedge 3 that I drive through the slot 2, the

groove lc serving to guide the wedge and protect it from distortion. After the wedge is driven tightly into place its smaller end can be bent down, as best seen in Fig` 8, to lock it from longitudinal movement.

It will be observed that this clip can be apwrench or other special tool; and also that it is less likely to become loose than a clip secured with a bolt and nut. The farmer in the eld can with a small piece of' rock or iron either apply or remove the clip.

It will be observed that the draft, being on the line 1*6, Fig. 1, is chiefiy on the upper member and hence there is little pressure on the connecting parts.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A clip comprising two wood-embracing members, one of said members having integral therewith at one end a draft loop and the other having at the corresponding end a perforated tongue integral therewith, the said tongue adapted to pass through said looped end of the first mentioned member the loop,` and means integral with the members for latching them together at the opposite ends of the members.

2. Aclip comprising, 'in combination, two wood-embracing members with means for se curing them together at one end, and means for lookin them together at the opposite end, one c said members having a draft loop formed integral therewith and said. member at its woodeembracing portion extending more than half way around the circumfer ence of the wood and beyond both terminals of a plane bisecting axially the wood.

3. A clip comprising, in combination, two

curing them together at one end, and means for locking them together at the opposite end, one of said members having a loop or device to which the harness of a draft animal can be attached and said member at its Wood-embracing portion extending more than half way around the circumference of the wood and beyond both terminals of a plane bisecting axially the wood.

4. A cllp com rising two wood-embracing members, one o` said members having integral therewith at one end a draft loop and a transverse groove at the outer side of the member at the base of the loop and the other member having at the corresponding end a plied and removed without the use of a.

and receive a key wedge lying on one side of wood-embracing members with means for se- ICO IIO

perforated tongue integral tl'lerewth, the seid tongue adapted to pass through seid loo ed end of the first mentioned member an receive e key Wedge lying on one side of the loop and in said groove, and means integral With the members for latohing them together at the opposite ends of the members.

A In testimony whereof l alix my signature, 1n presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY F. GRAY. Witnesses:

OLIN J, Ross, BENJ. FINoKEL. 

